BOB DOLE'S HEART IS TELLING HIM ONE THING, BUT HIS HEAD AND HIS RIGHT WING ARE WHISPERING ANOTHER

You can marry for love. You can marry for convenience. Or you can let others (who say they have your best interests at heart) arrange a marriage for you. In the traditional mating ritual known as selecting a Vice President, those are Bob Dole's choices--and also his dilemma. He'd like to marry for love, is being pushed by his party's right wing toward an arrangement, and may, as a result, opt for a marriage of political convenience.

Last week Dole went a-courting to Pennsylvania, where he auditioned Governor Tom Ridge for running mate. Dole is obviously fond of the earnest, 6-ft....